Imagine being back in the 1840s. Clanking wagons roll through the river town of Cradock on their way to the hinterland. Hear the clatter of blacksmiths, the crack of the drovers’ whips, the chatter of last-minute traders as adventurers and their families prepare for their long trek across the Karoo. More than two dozen Tuishuise line Market Street up to the Victoria Manor, a grand old colonial hotel.
But by the early 1920s, the world had swopped over to trains and motorcars, with wagons a relic of the past. The artisans clung to their homes and, ironically, kept them in their traditional state because they were too poor to knock them down and build those modern-day monstrosities you see all over the platteland.
Today, Market Street consists of more than two dozen beautifully restored and individually decorated houses, paying tribute to people who lived in the street as well as leading literary figures and heroes from Cradock.
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